Sustainable restaurant group Lussmanns is returning to London after more than 20 years with the opening of its latest venue this month, in Highgate. Founder Andrei Lussmann launched his original venture in Portobello Road in 2002, but has grown the group in the past two decades across Hertfordshire, with five branches in towns including Harpenden […]
Former Smithfield bar Oriole is reopening this month in Covent Garden with a significantly upgraded restaurant serving Latin American-influenced dishes – and live jazz music as an added extra. The operation has run as pop-up called Prelude this summer, and launches next week in its new home in St Martin’s Courtyard, Slingsby Place. Guests are […]
Read’s in Kent, one of the Britain’s longest-running country restaurants with rooms, is to close down after 47 years at the end of the month. Owner-operators Rona and David Pitchford, both in their mid-seventies, say that Father Time has finally caught up with them – much as they would like to carry on for another half […]
Southwest London restaurateur Rebecca Mascarenhas is crowdfunding towards the launch next month of a second branch of her Putney restaurant Home SW15 in her home village of Barnes. Supporters are being asked to ‘buy a brick’ for £100 to be displayed at Home SW13, in return for an invitation to the soft launch in early […]
Chef Simon Bonwick has announced his latest move – a residency at The Oarsman bistro/pub in Marlow, where he will be cooking solo for up to 12 guests seated at a communal table in an upstairs private dining room. Bookings are available on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7.30pm from September 5, plus lunch on […]
Veteran Edinburgh restaurateur Ignacio ‘Iggy’ Campos opens his latest venture next Wednesday (August 14) – a wine and tapas bar called Cata in Northwest Circus Place, Stockbridge. Now aged 72, he announced the opening with a social media post proclaiming “Iggy is back in business!” – “In Spanish, Cata means to taste, to try or a tasting of […]
A modern French bistro with a focus on affordability opens in the leafy southwest London borough of Richmond this month. Chef John McClements, who ran the local Ma Cuisine group for three decades, has come out of retirement to launch the project. Mignonette is just five minutes’ walk from Richmond station on the Kew Road, […]
An old Dalston boozer, the Marquis of Lansdowne, is to be reopened next week having been transformed into the Marquee Moon, a restaurant and ‘listening bar’ from the team behind nightclub The Cause. Stuart Glen and Eugene Wild, who also run Hackney Wick bar All My Friends and The Greyhound in Peckham, have renovated the […]
Pidgin in Hackney, one of the stars of the east London dining scene, is to close after nine years at the end of next week – and will be replaced by a new venture, Sesta, led by current head chef Drew Snaith and former manager Hannah Kowalski (pictured). Belying its diminutive size, Pidgin was hugely […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 4th August 2024 Evening Standard Ibai, Smithfield Jimi Famurewa headed to a new “City-boy steakhouse” from Basque meat specialist Nemanja Borjanović, the founder of Lurra, which overturns the beamed-farmhouse-with-pintxo-counter stereotype of the Spanish-French border region. Instead, he found a […]
